By Frank Moher The CBC has been given its money back. That is to say, the immediate infusion of $75 million announced in the Liberals’ budget last month, plus the promise of a $150 million increase each year through 2021, more than makes up for the money leached from it by the Conservatives. Various ideas have […]

By Jim Henshaw A decade of boneheaded moves by Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, were the original inspiration for my blog. And over its life I’ve repeatedly weighed in on just how dim-witted or out of touch our CRTC Commissioners have been with their decisions. The last was a couple of months ago with the first […]

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten This weekend a lot of Canadians rejoiced in the cultural mecca that is this nation by participating in some 7,000 free activities in 850 communities. Creatively named Culture Days, the annual event celebrates, well, culture in its many forms – artistic, ethnic, regional, social – with events across the country. “Creative people” […]

Frank Moher We are a little late to this battle, having been on hiatus in August, so I’ll keep this brief. The Conservatives have already been pounded on mightily for their cuts to arts funding last month, but let me add that the skankiest aspect to their behaviour was the covert way in which they […]

By Frank Moher In my previous post to this section I said I’d be back in seven days with my thoughts on Yann Martel’s bibliophilic jihad against Stephen Harper. That was, er, um, six weeks ago. But hey, who hasn’t been following the Paris Hilton news coverage 24/7? In any event, in the interim a […]

By Alison@Creekside
The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

By Jim Henshaw
There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

By Frank Moher
On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick.
Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

By Frank Moher
Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault.
By Mary Fraughton
Have you ever played Hearts?
It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]